Product Manager, Accessibility

Job Description

Over the last 10+ years, Ellevation Education has built a thriving business serving the administrators, specialists, and teachers who support English Learners (ELL) at public schools across the US. Today, over 1,800 school districts use our software to manage their EL programs and drive key outcomes for students. We are a successful, rapidly-growing business with a real mission—helping ELLs achieve their highest

We are currently making a series of major investments in how our suite of products supports accessibility and assistive technology use to ensure we optimize usability for all studetns and teachers in schools around the country. To do this, we are developing deeper sophistication around WCAG criteria, ensuring usability of accessibility and accommodation supports, and how to navigate a myriad of strategic questions.

As the Product Manager, you will be the first hire on a team focused on developing key organizational competencies in the accessibility domain. You will regularly interface with members of Leadership as well as other leaders (Product Managers, Engineering Managers, Product Designers) across our suite of products to help define and execute against our accessibility strategy. You will leverage deep understanding of WCAG and familiarity with assistive technologies to create and maintain key accessibility documentation (ACRs, internal guidelines, etc.). Throughout all of this work, you will identify and weigh tradeoffs between short and long-term investments to align our accessibility strategy with our product strategy to maximize value for Ellevation and the customers we serve.

At Ellevation, Product Managers are responsible for working cross-functionally to ensure success across the end-to-end product life cycle, from discovery to delivery, to ensure the work of the product organization has a positive impact on our customers and on our company. This involves deeply understanding the business and developing relationships across the organization. Importantly, this means creating opportunities for others to plug in to your work and ensuring stakeholders understand what you are doing, why you are doing it, and that you have factored their ideas and/or concerns into that thinking.

Product Culture

We are organized into small product teams that focus on key problems to solve in the context of a specific domain. We focus on outcomes over output. Our teams are empowered to research, prototype, and solicit user feedback to validate hypotheses. We engage users early and rapidly iterate so that the end result is a high-confidence, high-value product. We aim to foster an environment where we have the runway to experiment and learn from failure while tackling tricky

teams are cross-functional in that they are made up of members of Product (Product Manager, UX Designer) and members of Engineering. Product and Engineering work hand-in-hand together—we call ourselves DevPro, and in fact, we rarely meet in isolation.

Clear vision and strong strategy are core principles within the Product organization. We value product managers who fully own the long-term vision—knowing where we are going and importantly why it matters for our customers. As strategy is meant to evolve, you will need to constantly identify increments, spot and mitigate risks, and position your team to meet the needs of the business on the way there.

We celebrate being accountable to outcomes, which means signing up to pursue that vision by knocking down obstacles that get in the way. This looks like conducting experiments which throw off learnings, adjusting strategy based on those learnings, and delivering products to end-users that change behavior and drive real value for the business.